Article: Cable gets run for the dinero in Latin America. (Latin American cable TV) (Industry Overview)

MEXICO CITY -- The sands are shifting in the multichannel business South of the Border with the creation of a pan-Latin American direct-to-home package and the opening up of MMDS franchising in at least three key countries.

Three Mexican organizations that compete in the programming arena -- MVS-Multivision, Cablevision and PCTV -- are responding to the impending encroachment on their business by Hubbard Broadcasting Inc.'s United States Satellite Broadcasting and Hughes Communications Inc.'s DirecTv direct-to-home services by launching DTH packages of their own with a total of 30 Spanish-language channels.

In recent weeks, both Mexico and Brazil have paved ...

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